From: ebritten@uci.edu (Eric Britten) Subject: Re: argv[0] has no full path name on winnt 13 Jul 1997 18:29:46 -0700 Sender: mail@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33C971AA.AB50A045.cygnus.gnu-win32@uci.edu> References: <199707132243.RAA10748@www.intur.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Original-To: Nick Shaffner Original-CC: Arlindo da Silva , gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Nick Shaffner wrote: > > I have this wrapper application which uses argv[0] to figure out the > > > directory where it was been installed, setting up all the other > > necessary enviroment variables before firing up the main > > application. Well, this works on win95; on winnt argv[0] returns > only > > the first token on the command line (without the full pathname). Is > > there a way to get full pathname of the executable that works on > both > > win95 AND winnt? > > > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > Try the GetCommandLine() funciton ( not sure of exact name ) > -- > Nick Shaffner > http://users.intur.net/~nshaf/ > If GetCommandLine doesn't work, then use GetModuleFileName GetModuleFileName(NULL, exepath, exepathlength); Eric Britten - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".